What is HeartMath® and Who is it for?
HeartMath®, founded in 1991 by Doc Childre, is a system of effective, scientifically-based tools and technology to help manage your energy, your stress level, your resilience, and your social interactions as you connect your heart and mind. HeartMath® learning programs and the emWave® and Inner Balance™ self-regulation technology are based on more than 400 studies conducted over 30 years on the psychophysiology of stress, resilience, and the interactions between the heart and brain, known as coherence.
HeartMath® system has been used in a wide variety of settings including schools, hospitals, the military, and businesses to help people feel better and become more productive in their lives. The studies document significant reductions in feelings of stress, improved sleep, improved mental capacity, improved worker satisfaction, improved social interactions as well as improved physical conditions such as blood pressure, respiratory, endocrine and cardiovascular health.
Who is HeartMath® for?
Anyone suffering from stress, anxiety, depression. brain fog, sleep issues, and chronic conditions that are caused by stress. I am using the program with teachers, parents, and students struggling during the Pandemic.
How can HeartMath® Help?
Using the HeartMath® breathing practices and other mind/body techniques, studies show the following positive effects on clients they studied
- 56% drop in depression
- 46% drop in anxiety
- 48% drop in fatigue
- 38% improvement in calmness
- 30% improvement in sleep
- 24% improvement in the ability to focus
What makes these strategies so effective for teachers is that they are simple, on-the-go methods of handling stress, calming down your nervous system, and creating resilience in your body and mind. HeartMath® is literally life-changing. Furthermore, HeartMath can be used in the classroom and integrates seamlessly with all ages of students and all curricula.
I am now a HeartMath® Certified Trainer and Trauma-Sensitive Clinical Coach
Many of you know I was in the classroom for 20 years: first as a high school teacher and then, as a college adjunct instructor in FGCU’s College of Education. I loved teaching and I loved my students, however, I did not learn how to emotionally self-regulate from the stress of caring for all my students. HeartMath® was the missing piece in my healing and my client’s and student’s healing. No matter how many changes that I made in my lifestyle, diet, exercise, sleep, and detox strategies, my healing was being hampered by nervous system dysregulation and an underlying subtle but chronic feeling of stress, overwhelm, fear, and anxiety. These kinds of stresses often go unnoticed until they result in chronic health conditions and burn-out.
Working with the HeartMath® tools, I have learned to self-regulate my emotions and get my heart and brain into a state of coherence. I now share dozens of strategies with teachers and other clients in trainings and coaching sessions. Read more in my blogs. Connecting with your heart and regulating your nervous system can open up the place of healing that is accessible to you at any time no matter what is going on in your health, your relationship, the classroom, or the world.
Blog Posts I wrote about HeartMath®
Can We Make Safe and Social Part of the New Normal??
What Does Normalcy Feel to You? Stop reading for a moment and close your eyes and sense this in your body. For me, it feels energetic and relaxed at...
World Mental Health Day Renamed
Why Bottom-Up not Top-Down May Work for Mental Health! Today is World Mental Health Day. Perhaps we should rename this as “The Role of the Nervous...
Ted Lasso and Social Coherence! It is About Uplifting Energy!
Raising Your Energetic Vibration Is Not "Pollyanna"! My husband and I have caught the Ted Lasso bug. This show just won several Emmys including...
Andrea Trank is an affiliate for the HeartMath® programs.
HeartMath offers science-based technologies and programs for taking charge of your life These products are based on a significant body of research and empirical evidence developed over the last 28 years.
The products and programs developed by HeartMath are proven to help individuals reduce stress and anxiety by increasing their inner balance and self-security.
While research is at the foundation it is the application in day-to-day practice that is the most significant form of validation. HeartMath has come to be used and recommended by many tens of thousands of doctor-and masters-level health professionals around the world over the past twenty years in a wide variety of physical and mental health modalities.
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